How do democracy and policy evaluation speak to each other?

Does evidence-based policy making lead to purely technocratic, undemocratic decision-making or do evaluation results enrich the discourse in democratic processes? The panel “How do democracy and policy evaluation speak to each other?” aims at shedding light on the question of the interrelation between democracy and policy evaluation by discussing research on the use of evaluations in democratic processes as well as on the democratisation of the evaluation processes.
Papers should address one of the following topics: (1) transfer of evaluation results into democratic decision making processes, (2) the use of evaluation results in argumentation and deliberative processes, (3) theory and practice of deliberative, democratic or participative evaluation, (4) expertise and opinion formation, (5) concepts and practice of evaluation culture in democracies. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome to the workshop.
The workshop is open to all researchers from all over the world, irrespective of whether they are formally affiliated with the study of political science, public administration or with other adjacent fields (such as history, political philosophy, political theory, law, and others). Academic quality and a substantive interest in the research theme are the prime requirements for participation.


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